Casino-style entertainment, dinner and dancing as well as silent and live auctions are what the Jackson Academy of Math & Music has in store for everyone who joins staff for the school’s third annual “An Evening in Monte Carlo...a black and white affair” fundraiser.

Multiple law enforcement agencies will be on the lookout for impaired drivers Super Bowl Sunday with five Roving DUI Saturation Patrols during and following the Feb. 1 championship game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks.

A Gilroy man was arrested and charged with growing more than 1,000 marijuana plants behind the façade of a furniture store in the heart of downtown Gilroy, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said.

Police rammed a stolen vehicle that tried to avoid a traffic stop in the parking lot of the Safeway grocery store at Tennant Station Tuesday morning, according to authorities. Both occupants were arrested.

Morgan Hill and Mountain View police are trying to find a suspect who used threats of bombs and firearms to obtain prescription pain medications from three pharmacies in both cities, according to authorities.

Morgan Hill police are investigating offensive graffiti and other vandalism that appeared on the front walls of Paradise Valley Elementary School and neighboring properties sometime before the morning of Jan. 23, according to authorities.

Diana Armbruster first noticed her family’s beloved 17-year-old Arabian horse was missing from her residence in south Gilroy just before 10 a.m. Tuesday. More than two days later and with no word after checking with her neighbors and filing reports with authorities, she suspects foul play.

An alarming and dangerous national trend among teenagers landed three Morgan Hill eighth-graders in the hospital Jan. 12 after they each ingested about a dozen doses of an over-the-counter cold, cough and congestion medicine, according to authorities.

Officers representing 13 county law enforcement agencies arrested 422 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to a final “Avoid the 13” report released Jan. 5 by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department.

A convicted animal abuser’s sentencing hearing Monday morning inside the South County Courthouse came with mixed emotions from the dozen women in attendance who were glad to hear the felony conviction but not as satisfied with the length of jail time the defendant received.

Update: A 14-year-old girl who had been missing since Christmas Eve has returned to her home in Salinas, according to Salinas police. Stephanie Arciniega, 14, was last seen leaving her Salinas home at approximately 9:30 p.m., and her family hadn’t heard from her since, suspecting she may be in Gilroy or San Jose.

Morgan Hill officers arrested a man with a replica gun late Saturday night in an incident that highlights the danger of altering or displaying toy firearms in a threatening manner, according to police.

In the shadow of civil unrest and protests following the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $263 million to put a camera on every law enforcement officer in the country—and local officials are taking notice.

The winter holidays are a time of festivity, cheer and, for many partygoers, alcohol consumption. That’s why police are warning Santa Clara County residents that if you’re celebrating with alcohol this holiday season, they’ll be keeping an eye out for you on the roads.

The winter holidays are a time of festivity, cheer and, for many partygoers, alcohol consumption. That’s why police are warning Santa Clara County residents that if you’re celebrating with alcohol this holiday season, they’ll be keeping an eye out for you on the roads.

Recent rains and cooler temperatures across the region have lowered the threat of wildfires, allowing CalFire’s Santa Clara Unit to transition out of fire season as of Dec. 8, 2014 at 8 a.m., according to a press release from CalFire. The transition takes place in Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa and the west side of Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties.

Defying expectations, Morgan Hill’s newest senior citizen apartment complex happens to be one of the police department’s busiest neighborhoods when it comes to calls for service, though the developer and city staff say safety improvements are already in the works.

Following a recent revelation in court that Paradise Valley Elementary School teacher John Loyd is now suspected of sexually assaulting four children, Morgan Hill police are seeking anyone who might have had inappropriate contact with the suspect over the years.

The Morgan Hill Police Department issued a notice Dec. 3 urging past victims to come forward, and listed a history of Loyd’s professional background dating back to the 1980s.

Loyd, 52 of Hollister, was arrested Oct. 2after the first victim—a student at Paradise Valley—told a school staff member Loyd had inappropriate contact with her in his classroom, according to authorities.

Loyd has been a fifth-grade teacher at the school since 2008, but Morgan Hill Unified School District placed him on administrative leave after his arrest. He started teaching in MHUSD in 2000 at Nordstrom Elementary, his last assignment before his transfer to Paradise Valley.

Since his first court appearance Oct. 7, the case against Loyd has grown as investigators have identified four young female victims who claim they were molested by the teacher. The latest victim said she was molested by Loyd while he was teaching at Nordstrom Elementary School more than six years ago, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Loyd remains in custody at the County Jail on several charges of lewd and lascivious acts toward a child. Each count carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, according to authorities.

Prior to his employment at MHUSD, Loyd worked at numerous schools in the Hollister School District, including Calaveras, Fremont/Ladd Lane, Gabilan Hills, Rancho San Justo, R.O. Hardin and Sunnyslope, according to police. He worked as a substitute teacher at San Benito High School from 1999 to 2000.

Loyd was also the director at Nordstrom Child Development Centers Inc. in Morgan Hill from 1992 to 1995, police said.

He was a Youth Leader and Camp Director with the East Valley YMCA and the South Valley Family YMCA from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, according to police.

During his career at MHUSD, Loyd also taught summer school at several schools in the district, police said.

“Morgan Hill Police are looking for anyone else who may have been a victim or know someone who was a victim of John Loyd,” the MHPD release said.

Any victim or anyone else with information about this case can contact MHPD Detective Mindy Zen at (408) 779-2101 or the anonymous tip line at (408) 947-7867.

Santa Clara County residents with warrants for their arrest will have the opportunity to spend the holidays with their families instead of in jail as local law enforcement agencies offer certain offenders a “second chance.”

A 31-year-old Gilroy man was arrested for manufacturing a controlled substance after the fire department responded to a call about a strong gas odor in the area of Fourth and Rosanna streets. Rene Vargas was making a concentrated form of cannabis made with pressurized butane in the home he shared with his father, wife and 11-month-old son on the 7600 block of Rosanna Street, a Gilroy Police Department spokesman said.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has charged a South County horse owner with felony cruelty to animals, according to a Nov. 14 press release. County Animal Control this week seized the herd, which remained after a neighbor and a rescue center tried to help by buying some of the most neglected animals.